Towards a Theology of Church Growth
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A01=David Goodhew
A01=Dr. David Goodhew
Alister McGrath
Ashley Null
Author_David Goodhew
Author_Dr. David Goodhew
B09=Bruce N. Kaye
B09=Rev. Thomas Hughson
B09=Very Revd Prof. Martyn Percy
Benedicta Ward
C. Kavin Rowe
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Category=NL-HR
Category=QRM
Category=QRVG
Christian Initiation
Christian mission studies
Church Growth
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Cultural Defiance
Danse Macabre
David Marshall
Decline Theology
doctrine and tradition
Dominic Erdozain
ecclesiology
Eleventh Hour
Emergent Church
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Graham Tomlin
Gregory's Understanding
historical church expansion
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Holy Men
Honey Comb
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Inter-religious Dialogue
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Ivor J. Davidson
Language_English
Late Medieval Piety
Late Modern West
Mark Bonnington
Martin Warner
Medieval European Christendom
Minor Creeds
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes
numerical
Numerical Church Growth
Numerical Growth
Opus Dei
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Paul's Trial
Paul’s Trial
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Pre-modern Religion
Price=€100 to €200
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religious pluralism
Severe Physical Health Problems
Subject=Religion & Beliefs
theological perspectives on numerical growth
theological reflection
UK Church
Verbal Links
Vice Versa
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Wider Roman World
William Glass
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- ISBN 9781472413994
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Concern about church growth and decline is widespread and contentious, yet theological reflection on church growth is scarce. Reflecting on the Bible, dogmatic theology and church history, this book situates the numerical growth of the church within wider Christian theology. Leading international scholars, including Alister McGrath, Benedicta Ward and C. Kavin Rowe, contribute a spectrum of voices from evangelical, charismatic, liberal and anglo-catholic perspectives. All contributors unite around the importance of seeking church growth, provided this is situated within a nuanced theological framework. This book offers a critique of ’decline theology’, which has been influential amongst theologians and churches, and which assumes church growth is impossible and/or unnecessary. The contributors provide rich resources from scripture, doctrine and tradition, to underpin action to promote church growth and to stimulate further theological reflection on the subject. The Archbishop of Canterbury provides the Foreword.
David Goodhew is an Anglican priest and Director of Ministerial Practice at Cranmer Hall, an Anglican theological college which is part of St John’s College, Durham, UK. He has worked as a parish priest and as a fellow and chaplain of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. He has published widely in the field of modern British church history and South African history, editing the collection Church Growth in Britain, 1980 to the Present, which was published by Ashgate in 2012.
